Is the public safe after the early prison release scheme?

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We were reassured that those released early from prison would be subject to world-leading tagging technology, with recall to prison if anyone were to breach the terms of the licence upon which they were released. Sir Mark Rowly, the head of the Metropolitan Police, has said that the system doesn’t seem to be working… 00:00 | Tom Swarbrick reacts to hearing that there is ‘no sanction’ for breaching the terms of your release, and that 95% of those that the Met arrests for this are released back into the community on the same terms. 01:45 | Claire Waxman OBE, Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, has ‘real concerns’ over whether the probation system can deliver. She says ‘we aren’t seeing victim safety being considered’ as part of bail terms, and that victims of stalking or domestic abuse can have ‘no confidence’ in the system. 06:13 | Steve Gallant is a Prison Safety Consultant and hero of the London Bridge terror attack. Steve spent over 16 years in custody for murder and was

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